Queen Elisabeth Competition for violin - Brussels
May 2009
Ieper - Next Cat Festival and Parade
May 2009
Coronation Celebrations - Tongeren
July 5– 12, 2009
Tongeren, the oldest town in Belgium, is the proud host of the Coronation Celebrations which take place only every seven years. 2009 will see the seventeenth edition of the celebrations. The highlights are the four processions and the four evening plays, in which more than 3,000 citizens of Tongeren take part. The last celebrations in 2002 drew more than 600,000 visitors from home and abroad.
Rogier van der Weyden, ca. 1400-1464: The Passion of the Master
Autumn 2009 in Leuven
The exhibition brings together masterpieces by Rogier van der Weyden and his contemporaries deriving from major collections in Europe and America and provides a unique overview of what was happening in Brabant on an artistic level in the fifteenth century. Official website for Artes.Leuven.
The autumn of 2009 will also see the reopening of the newly renovated Leuven museum precincts. Designed by Stéphane Beel, the building is a combination of old and new elements, thereby reflecting its activities. The Leuven collection will be central, but contemporary art will also enter into dialogue with the public.
Highlights of the festival year 2009 are the new permanent presentation of the museum collections and the major exhibition ‘Rogier van der Weyden, ca. 1400-1464: The Passion of the Master by Artes-Leuven.
Unfinished Business. Unfinished paintings from Van Eyck to Mondrian
2009 DTA
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (KMSKA)
Many paintings did not make it to the finishing line, having been abandoned by the artist and left in an unfinished state. And yet these paintings tell us a good deal about the way the artist worked. The exhibition ‘Unfinished Business’ tells this story by means of important paintings by some of the West’s greatest artists: Van Eyck, Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Correggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Reni, Gainsborough, Picasso and Mondrian. The works on show will derive from European and American collections.
From Van Eyck to Dürer. The Flemish Primitives and Eastern Europe, 1430-1530
2010 DTA
Bruges, Groeninge Museum
In 2010 the Groeninge Museum in Bruges is to mount a prestigious exhibition about the influence of the Flemish Primitives on art in Central and Eastern Europe. For the first time ever the cultural interchange between the Burgundian Netherlands and its Eastern neighbors (and the northern and central part of Eastern Europe in particular) is being systematically researched and presented in an exhibition.
On show will be paintings from Flemish Primitives such as Van Eyck, Campin, Van der Weyden, Van der Goes, Memling, as well as works by famous artists like Dürer, Schongauer, Lochner, Altdorfer and Holbein, but above all art treasures by little known masters from Germany, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Estonia. In addition to paintings, the exhibition will also feature sculptures, illuminated manuscripts and engravings.
Floralies Ghent - Next Flower Show to take place in 2010
Ros Beiaard Procession
Spring 2010
Dendermonde, town center
The Ros Beiaard procession has its origins in a medieval legend of four orphans. Beiaard is a wooden horse of gigantic proportions which arouses tremendous interest as it is carried through Dendermonde by a guild of bearers. The procession is only held once every ten years, which is why every procession is a veritable celebration and taking leave of the horse invariably proves to be very hard to do. Beiaard the horse and the three giants of Dendermonde feature on the UNESCO world heritage list.
The Golden Age of Antwerp
2010 DTA
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (KMSKA)
Some ninety paintings shed light on art from the heyday of Antwerp’s economy, the sixteenth century. The Antwerp Master of the Adoration, Jan de Beer, Jan Wellens de Cock, the Master of Frankfurt, Quinten Metsys, Joachim Patinir, Matthijs Cock, Pieter Coecke, Pieter Aertsen, Jan van Amstel, Jan van Hemessen, Pieter Brueghel I, Frans Floris and Joachim Beuckelaer played a decisive role in introducing innovations to European painting and at the same time paved the way for the successes of Rubens and his contemporaries.
The Royal Museum for Central Africa, 100 Years
2010
Tervuren, Royal Museum for Central Africa
Seven-yearly Virga Jesse festivities
August 2010
Hasselt
Hasselt is planning a whole host of activities in honor of Our Lady Virga Jesse, including guided city walks and tours and the Virga-Jesse stage play. All these activities will culminate in the Ommegang (procession). |
